Reweaving needles



Feb. 19, 1957 A. s. LE SZEN REWEAVING NEEDLES Filed June 30, 1952 Fig.

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United States Patent REWEAVING NEEDLES Anastasia S. Le Szen, Montgomery, Minn.

Application June 30, 1952, Serial No. 296,408

1 Claim. (Cl. 223-102 My invention relates to improvements in needles for reweaving repair purposes, especially.

The primary object of my invention is to provide a reweaving needle which is easy to thread and which eliminates the use of the usual needle threader.

Another object is to provide a needle for the above purpose which is provided with means facilitating advance and retraction of a needle in reweaving and without snagging the fabric.

Still another object is to attain the above advantages in a reweaving needle which is easy to handle and com paratively inexpensive to manufacture.

Other and subordinate objects, within the purview of my invention, together with the precise nature of my improvements will be readily understood when the succeeding description and claim are read with reference to the drawing accompanying and forming part of this specification.

In said drawing:

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of my improved needle in the preferred embodiment thereof;

Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary view of the needle turned through an angle of 180 degrees relative to its position in Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a fragmentary enlarged view showing the needle turned through an angle of 90 degrees from its position as shown in Figure 2, and

Figure 4 is a fragmentary enlarged view in side elevation of a modification of the needle.

Referring now to the drawing by numerals, my improved needle, in the preferred embodiment thereof shown in Figures 1 to 3, comprises a cylindrical handle 1 having suitably fixed at one end coaxially of the handle a needle bar 2 terminating in an elongated, flattened, and pointed head portion 3 substantially oval-shaped edgewise.

The head portion 3 is provided in substantially the center thereof with an approximately elliptical eye 4 with its major axis extending longitudinally of said head portion 3. The head portion 3 rearwardly of the eye 4 is split longitudinally to provide a longitudinal threading slot 5 therein adjacent one edge thereof in the rear of said eye and terminating at one end at the rear end of said eye and extending rearwardly in said head portion with a permanently open rear end 6 and a permanently open front end 7 opening into the rear end of the eye 4 at one side of said eye, said split further forming a resilient arm 8 at said edge of the head portion 3 defining the outer side of the slot 5 and one side of the eye 4 and curving rearwardly and inwardly of the head portion 3 for a particular purpose presently seen.

The needle bar 2 immediately in the rear of the head portion 3 is flattened and flares forwardly to provide at the rear end of the slot 5 a hump, or protuberance, 9 at the same edge of said head portion 3 as the arm 8 having a front edge 10 inclining forwardly obliquely of said bar 2 and head portion 3 across the rear end 6 of the Slot 5 in spaced relation to said end and to the free end 11 of the arm 8. The usual thread groove 13 in the head portion 3 is provided at the rear end of the eye 4 at the inner side of the slot 5.

The described needle is threaded by passing the thread, not shown, forwardly of the head portion 3 directly into the eye 4 through the threading slot 5. In this connection, the arm 8 flexes outwardly during threading of the needle to pass the thread therethrough, the slot 5 being preferably narrower than the thread being used, and then reacts inwardly of the slot 5 to narrow said slot and prevent the thread from passing rearwardly out of the eye 4 back into said slot. The oval shape and flattened form of the head 3 facilitates advancing and retracting the needle in reweaving at the back of fabric, as is the practice, and the hump, or protuberance, 9 prevents the free end 11 of the arm 8 from snagging the fabric during retraction of the needle.

In the modification shown in Figure 4, a forwardly extending, curved tongue 15 on the head portion 16 extends forwardly part-way into the eye 17 at the rear end thereof and across the front open end 18 of the threading slot 19 and overlaps the arm 20 slightly to lock the thread in the eye 17 against passing backwardly into the slot 19. The arm 20 is reduced in thickness so that the tongue 15 is inset into the head portion 16 to prevent the same from protruding outwardly of said side of the head portion and snagging the fabric during advance of the needle. The tongue 15 is resilient so that the thread may pass between the same and the arm 20 into the eye 17. Otherwise, the construction is the same as in the preferred embodiment.

The foregoing will, it is believed, sufiice to impart a clear understanding of my invention, without further explanation.

Manifestly, the invention, as described, is susceptible of modification, without departing from the inventive concept, and right is herein reserved to such modifications, as fall within the scope of the appended claim.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

A needle comprising a needle bar terminating in an elongated, flattened and pointed head portion substantially oval edgewise and provided with an eye elongated therein with its major axis extending longitudinally of said head portion, said head portion having adjacent one edge thereof a longitudinal threading slot therein in the rear of said eye terminating at .one end at the rear portion of said eye and curving rearwardly and inwardly of said head portion, and a resilient arm at said edge of said portion forming one side of said slot, said slot having a permanently open rear entrance end and a permanently open front end opening into the rear portion and at one side of said eye, said arm flexing outwardly of the slot to provide for passing a thread forwardly therethrough directly into the rear portion of said eye and reacting inwardly of said slot to partly close the slot and prevent the thread from passing from said eye back into said slot, said head portion having a thread groove therein extending rearwardly from said rear portion of said eye and terminating at said rear portion, said head portion being provided with a tongue extending forwardly therefrom partway into said eye at one side of the eye and across said arm and the front end of the slot to lock the thread in the eye against movement into the front end of the slot.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 913,648 Reeder Feb. 23, 1909 1,607,479 Raper Nov. 16, 1926 1,633,726 Dziuk June 28, 1927 2,513,235 Currier June 27, 1950 FOREIGN PATENTS 258,326 Great Britain Sept. 15, 1926 

